Living In Oz
Album details
Artist: Rick Springfield
Year: 1983
Average fodder rating (out of 5): 4
Difficulty: Intermediate
Assessment of suitability for parodying
At first I really was not too inclined to do this album. It just has such a vocabulary, which is something about Rick Springfield I generally like, but can make parodying difficult. I ultimately found myself plenty of niches here, and at least the songs are easy to memorize. But, oh my, their content.
The parodies
Human Touch . . . Inhuman Touch
Alyson . . . A Reason
Affair Of The Heart . . . Tear Out Your Heart
Living In Oz . . . Giving Up Cause
Me & Johnny . . . Me Enemies
Motel Eyes . . . Ocean Ties
Tiger By The Tail . . . Pirate in the Tales
Souls . . . Soul
I Can’t Stop Hurting You . . . It Couldn’t Stop Hurting You
Like Father, Like Son . . . Cursed Father, Cursed Son
Behind the scenes
- I wrote the parody album in early 2018.
- I like to call the parody album Giving Up Cause.
- Remarks about my creativity with the album can be found in Album Story 20: Pilfering.
Categories
Album categories: Intermediating-difficulty albums, 4-fodder albums, uncut albums
Song categories: Rick Springfield songs, 1980s songs, 2-fodder songs, 3-fodder songs, 4-fodder songs, 5-fodder songs, songs parodied multiple times, songs featuring pirate age-appropriate music
Parody subject categories: Parodies about begging to differ from Davy Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean as a franchise, literal heart misplacement, fighting Davy Jones, transformation into a monster, pirate lifestyle, story of Davy Jones and Calypso, parodies about the Turner family
Parody style categories: Clever uses of songs, repurposed songs, others
Other parody categories: Parodies that are accessible to everyone